With Chen Xuanling's departure, the final match officially began.
A group of alchemists ascended the floating platform in mid-air to begin preparations for the final pill refining process. Except for a very few who directly summoned their medicine cauldrons, the rest either sat quietly to adjust their own state or studied the pill formulas or rare medicinal materials they were about to refine.
Although no one took many actions, the atmosphere in the room gradually became solemn.
As High-Level Alchemist, they knew all too well how important the preliminary alchemy preparations were in such a setting. Any slight change in their own condition at this moment could be magnified infinitely in the subsequent competition, and it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn't lose their championship title because of it.
Therefore, they would rather wait a little longer than risk even a second.
To Xu Qinghe's surprise, Xiao Yan also stepped onto the floating platform with an expectant look on his face. Moreover, judging from his full aura, his Spiritual Strength seemed to have not weakened at all.
On that day in the secret realm, he clearly sensed the immense Soul Power within Xiao Yan's body. Xu Qinghe was certain that he could not be wrong about that soul fluctuation; it must have been caused by Xiao Yan using some kind of high-level Soul Secret Technique. Yet now, the latter was casually standing among a group of alchemists, which was truly quite strange.
Xu Qinghe wasn't the only one holding this thought at the moment. Even Viper, who had witnessed Xiao Yan unleash the Ten Thousand Seas Return to the Ruins Fu Kui, was equally astonished by Xiao Yan's performance.
Although both of them were incredibly curious about Xiao Yan's experiences these past few days, with the competition at hand, they had no time to worry about anything else. In any case, winning the Pill Gathering and obtaining the Heaven Inquiry Pill was the most important thing right now!
"Clang!"
Until a certain moment, the white-robed old man, who had interrupted Ji Yao not long ago and was known as Elder Zhong, suddenly flashed with light. A silver light circled his body and rapidly expanded during the process, transforming into a huge silver medicine cauldron the moment it landed.
Then his body suddenly trembled, and the white robe on his back began to writhe strangely, transforming in the blink of an eye into a silver crocodile with blazing silver flames burning on its back armor. At Elder Zhong's signal, it quickly crawled into the medicine cauldron in front of it.
" Silver-Scaled Fire Crocodile, I didn't expect this person to be able to obtain such a flame."
" The Silver-Scaled Fire Crocodile clan, as a subordinate clan of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, was almost completely wiped out by the latter. Finding even a wisp of Silver Shard Flame on the continent today is truly not easy."
The Yuan Zun Venerables present were all surprised and full of praise when they saw the flames controlled by Elder Zhong. Only a graceful woman in a purple robe on a certain spot on the floating platform stared at the Silver Shard Flame with slightly narrowed eyes for a while before looking away.
As Elder Zhong began refining pills, the other Tier Eight Alchemist on the field could no longer contain themselves and began to release their respective cauldrons and internal flames one by one. The appearance of almost every kind of flame caused a commotion on the floating platform and the surrounding stands.
As High-Level Alchemist, they have extremely high requirements for the flames they use. Moreover, many of them have already reached the Yuan Zun Realm, and their perspective on things is different. What they might have previously regarded as treasures, the flames of various medicinal cauldrons, are now just so-so in their eyes.
If it weren't some unparalleled treasure, how could it have caught the eye of these Yuan Zun Venerables?
"Puff!"
At a certain moment, a fist-sized, viscous, emerald-green flame suddenly rose up on the field, which abruptly attracted the attention of everyone present. Even Xiao Yan's gaze narrowed abruptly the instant the emerald-green flame appeared.
Looking again at the owner of that flame, it was none other than Xu Qinghe.
"As expected, what I vaguely sensed back then was indeed the Flame of Life!"
Upon seeing this, Xiao Yan nodded slightly as if he had expected it. When he first saw Xu Qinghe refining pills in Pill City, he had already vaguely sensed that the other party possessed the aura of Heavenly Flames. However, since the other party deliberately concealed his abilities, he naturally would not reveal his trump card.
At this moment, the flame summoned by Xu Qinghe was none other than the Flame of Life, ranked fifth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. However, with Xiao Yan's knowledge, he could tell at a glance that this Heavenly Flames was at most a small cluster of Child Flame separated from the Origin Flame. But even this Child Flame caused the flames summoned by everyone else on the field to tremble in fear the instant it appeared.
Seemingly sensing Xiao Yan's gaze, as the latter looked at the Flame of Life, Xu Qinghe slightly raised his eyes, meeting Xiao Yan's gaze with a slightly raised eyebrow, as if inviting Xiao Yan to release his own Heavenly Flames.
Throughout his trip to the Pill Gathering, Xu Qinghe had concealed his Flame of Life, keeping it hidden as his trump card for winning the Pill Gathering. Only now was it truly revealed. Although he knew that his Flame of Life was no match for Xiao Yan's strange Fused Heavenly Flame, he was still quite confident that he could win the championship based on his own strength.
Sensing the intention in Xu Qinghe's gaze, Xiao Yan smiled. He opened his mouth, and a dark red fire line, fused with several different kinds of Heavenly Flames fire, shot out. At the same time, a streak of azure light flashed out from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring, rapidly expanding into a cyan-gold medicine cauldron. The fire line then coiled around the cauldron, instantly transforming into a massive fire dragon, exuding an aura of dominance and suppressing the flames in the hands of all the alchemists present.
This scene immediately drew everyone's attention to Xiao Yan.
Ignoring the various gazes, Xiao Yan slammed his hand heavily on the medicine cauldron in front of him. The lid opened, and the fire dragon soared into the sky. After Formation Plate, it plunged into the medicine cauldron below, transforming into a ball of raging flames that burned fiercely.
At this moment, those present finally saw the Luo Heavenly Cauldron standing in front of Xiao Yan, and immediately another burst of exclamations of surprise rang out.
Even for these High-Level Alchemist, whose current skill level means that the cauldrons on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking are no longer of much use in refining pills, they are still tempted by such rare items, though not nearly as alluring as the Heavenly Flames.
"Laugh!"
Shortly after Xiao Yan put the Fused Heavenly Flame into the medicine cauldron, a rather eerie sound of flames rising from somewhere in the arena once again drew the attention of everyone present.
What is that?
"Can such a dense array of flames truly be used to refine elixirs?"